Mark Tapscott

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An estimated 6,000 IRS employees have outside jobs or are involved in extracurricular businesses, but only half of them are doing so with permission from their superiors, according to a Department of the Treasury watchdog.Â (iStock)

IRS thinks its employees’ income info should be kept away from investigators

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

An United States Postal Office employee puts a bundle of mail onto a machine at the Processing and Distribution Center on December 16, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty images)

U.S. mail moves much slower in San Francisco than anywhere else

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

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FOIA advocates disagree on timing of reform measure moving through Senate

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 11:03 pm

States can handle disasters better than FEMA, Cato study finds

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 9:17 pm

Feds boxed up, forgot 12,000 FOIA requests

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 3:50 pm

GAO says Medicare, Medicaid cost-comparison tools too influenced by providers

Mark Tapscott · November 19, 2014 5:00 am

Medicare's error rate for payments to hospitals, doctors and other service providers has spiraled upward from 8.5 percent to 10 percent in one year, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Growing Medicare error payments rate cost $45 billion in 2013, IG reports

Mark Tapscott · November 18, 2014 11:15 pm

The CFPB was created by Congress and President Obama four years ago to help consumers better understand and use sometimes complicated financial resources, but a new Government Accountability Office review has found for a second straight year serious deficiencies in the bureau's stewardship of its own budget. (iStock)

GAO says CFPB’s spending accounting flaws are serious, require prompt fixes

Mark Tapscott · November 18, 2014 2:00 pm

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Justice IG says Childhelp foundation failed on every count with six grants

Mark Tapscott · November 16, 2014 10:00 am

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IRS paid out millions in improper fuel credits on tax returns

Mark Tapscott · November 15, 2014 10:00 am

Hundreds of nursing homes have received nearly $2.5 billion in mortgages and loans guaranteed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development since 2009 despite getting the lowest possible rating from federal health officials. (iStock Photo)

HUD backing mortgages, loans for lowest-rated nursing homes despite warnings

Mark Tapscott · November 13, 2014 5:57 pm

House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith wants to know how and why a federal agency gave nearly a million tax dollars to a project studying how to target political speech on Twitter. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

House science committee chairman challenges NSF ‘Truthy Project’ funding

Mark Tapscott · November 11, 2014 3:00 pm